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The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

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An edition of Shady characters (2013)

Shady Characters

The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
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  • 21 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the Library of Alexandria to the halls of Bell Labs. Whether investigating the annotating duo of asterisk (*) and dagger (†); the plucky pilcrow (¶) and humble ampersand (&); or the at sign (@) and octothorpe (#), both newly reinvigorated by the Internet, Shady Characters will delight all who cherish the unpredictable and surprising in the writing life.

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Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Language
English
Pages
350

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Subjects
Type and type-founding, Writing, Punctuation, History, Signs and symbols, Type and type-founding, history, Writing, history, Paleography, Typography, Ponctuation, Histoire, Signes et symboles, Écriture, Interpunktion, Historia, Symboler, Skrift

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Shady characters
2015, Penguin, Penguin Books Ltd, imusti
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks
2014, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks
2013, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton & Company
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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities
2013, Penguin Books, Limited
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Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and other Typographical Curiosities
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Table of Contents

Preface. ix
How to Read this Book. xii
1. The Pilcrow. 3
2. The Interrobang. 25
3. The Octothorpe. 41
4. The Ampersand. 59
5. The @ Symbol. 79
6. The Asterisk and Dagger. 97
7. The Hyphen. 121
8. The Dash. 145
9. The Manicule. 167
10. Quotation Marks. 187
11. Irony and Sarcasm. 211
1. Irony in History. 212
2. Ironics. 223
3. Digital Sarcasm. 229
Afterword. 245
Further Reading. 247
Acknowledgments. 249
Notes. 251
Illustration Credits. 319
Index. 323

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New York, USA, London, England
Copyright Date
2013

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Dewey Decimal Class
411
Library of Congress
P301.5.P86 H68 2013

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xii, 338p
Number of pages
350
Dimensions
20.6 x 14 x 2.1 centimeters
Weight
408 grams

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Open Library
OL29673950M
ISBN 13
9780393241549
LCCN
2013017324
OCLC/WorldCat
869437878
OverDrive
2313620
Library Thing
13769421
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20663738

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